65 ILCS 5/ Illinois Municipal Code.

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65 ILCS 5/11-23-5

(65 ILCS 5/11-23-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-23-5)

Sec. 11-23-5.

Immediately after their appointment the directors shall meet
to organize by the election of one of their number president and one as
secretary and by the election of such other officers as they may deem
necessary. They shall adopt such by-laws, rules, and regulations for their
own guidance and for the government of the hospital as may be expedient and
not inconsistent with ordinances of the city. They have the exclusive
control of the expenditure of all money collected to the credit of the
hospital fund. All money received for the hospital shall be deposited in
the city treasury to the credit of the hospital fund, and drawn upon by the
proper city officers upon the proper authenticated vouchers of the hospital
board. The board has the power to purchase or lease ground and to occupy,
lease, or erect appropriate buildings for the use of the hospital. It has
the exclusive control of the supervision, care, and custody of the grounds,
leases, and buildings constructed, leased, or set apart for that purpose.
The board has the power to appoint a suitable superintendent or matron, or
both, and necessary assistants, to fix their compensation and to remove
such appointees. The board in general shall carry out the spirit and intent
of this Division 23 in establishing and maintaining or in purchasing and
maintaining a public hospital. The board is authorized to approve the
provision of any service and to approve any contract or other arrangement
not prohibited by a hospital licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act,
incorporated under the General Not-For-Profit Corporation Act, and exempt
from taxation under paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of the
Internal Revenue Code.  One or all of the directors shall visit and
examine the hospital at least twice each month and the board shall make
monthly reports of its condition to the city council.

(Source: P.A. 86-739.)

65 ILCS 5/11-23-6

(65 ILCS 5/11-23-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-23-6)

Sec. 11-23-6.

The corporate authorities of a city specified in this
Division 23 may provide that bonds of the city be issued for the purpose
of (1) constructing and equipping a hospital building or buildings, (2)
purchasing and maintaining an existing nonsectarian public hospital
within the city's corporate limits, or of (3) reconstructing, repairing,
remodeling, and improving, or of (4) extending and equipping, an
existing hospital building or buildings now owned and operated by the
city. These bonds shall be authorized by an ordinance and shall mature
at such time, not to exceed 20 years from their date of issue, and bear
such rate of interest, not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the
Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the
contract, payable annually or semi-annually, as the corporate authorities may determine.

The ordinance providing for the issuance of these bonds shall be
submitted to the electors of the city at an election conducted in accordance
with the general election law. The proposition shall be certified by the
municipal clerk and submitted by the proper election authority. If a majority
of the votes cast on this proposition are favorable, the bonds shall be
issued for the purpose and in the amount specified in the ordinance. Prior
to July 1, 1944, however, in the event that aid is to be received from any
agency of the Federal Government in the construction of the project for
which these bonds are to be issued and a declaration of that fact is set
forth in the ordinance providing for the issuance of the bonds, the
ordinance shall become effective immediately upon passage, without
submission to the electors and notwithstanding any provision in this Code
or in any other law to the contrary. The declaration of the corporate
authorities that the project is to be paid for either in whole or in part
by a grant from a Federal agency, as set forth in the ordinance, is
conclusive. These bonds shall be signed by the president and secretary of
the hospital board and by the mayor and city clerk, or commissioner of
accounts and finance of the city, and shall be payable out of the taxes to
be collected for hospital purposes in that city.

With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this
Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory
Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General
Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary
grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond
Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to
have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of
this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by
the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section
within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not
invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to
have been more restrictive than those Acts.

(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/11-23-7

(65 ILCS 5/11-23-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-23-7)

Sec. 11-23-7.

Every hospital established or purchased under this Division
23 shall be maintained for the benefit of the inhabitants of the city in
which it is established who are sick, injured, or maimed. But every
inhabitant of that city shall pay to the hospital board, or to such officer
as it shall designate, reasonable compensation for occupancy, nursing,
care, medicines, or attendance, according to the rules and regulations
prescribed by the board. The hospital shall always be subject to such
reasonable rules and regulations as the hospital board may adopt in order
to render the use of the hospital of the greatest benefit to the greatest
number. The board may exclude from the use of the hospital all inhabitants
and persons who wilfully violate those rules and regulations. The board may
extend the privileges and use of the hospital to persons residing outside
of the city but within this state, upon such terms and conditions as the
board may prescribe by its rules and regulations.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-23-8

(65 ILCS 5/11-23-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-23-8)

Sec. 11-23-8.

The board of directors, in the name of the city, shall
receive and collect from such inhabitants or persons the compensation
specified in Section 11-23-7 as often as once in each month. The board
shall pay over to the city treasurer all compensation received or collected
during the month, and shall take the city treasurer's receipt therefor. At
the city council's regular monthly meeting the board shall also report to
the city council the names of persons or inhabitants from whom this
compensation has been received or collected, the amount so received or
collected from each, and the date when so received or collected.

The board of directors shall make an annual report to the city council
on or before the second Monday in June, stating (1) the condition of their
trust on the first day of June of that year, (2) the various sums of money
received from the hospital fund and from other sources, (3) how that money
has been expended and for what purposes, (4) the number of patients, and
(5) such other statistics, information, and suggestions as they may deem of
general interest.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-23-9

(65 ILCS 5/11-23-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-23-9)

Sec. 11-23-9.

When such a hospital is so established or purchased, the
physicians, nurses, attendants, patients, all persons approaching or coming
within the limits of the hospital, and all furniture and other articles
used or brought there shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the
board of directors may prescribe.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-23-10

(65 ILCS 5/11-23-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-23-10)

Sec. 11-23-10.

Any person desiring to donate property for the benefit of
such a hospital may vest the title to the property so donated in the board
of directors created under this Division 23. That board or its successor
shall hold and control this property, when accepted, according to the terms
of the deed, gift or legacy of the property, and shall be a
trustee of the property.

(Source: P.A. 83-388.)

65 ILCS 5/11-23-11

(65 ILCS 5/11-23-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-23-11)

Sec. 11-23-11.

All physicians who are recognized as legal practitioners by
the Department of Professional Regulation shall have equal privileges in
treating patients in such a hospital.

(Source: P.A. 85-1209.)